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Posted by Eric Stone | Apr 13, 2021
The Ketchikan School District seal on display at the superintendent’s office. (KRBD file photo by Leila Kheiry)
Ketchikan’s school board is set to hold its first public hearing Wednesday on next year’s budget.
It’s just shy of 1% larger than the current year’s $41.1 million budget. That’s despite a projected quarter-million-dollar cut in local education funding that district officials hope to make up through an increase in state aid.
School district officials say they don’t anticipate layoffs. And spending on personnel is planned to rise by about $1 million to roughly $36.5 million. In a memo to the school board, the district’s business manager, Katie Parrott, says the budget aims to preserve core education programming.
Five local students competed in the 2021 Alaska State Spelling Bee late last month.
According to information from the Alaska Spelling Bee organization, 88 students in grades three through eight qualified for the state-level competition.
The bee s first place winner was Ishita Khiani, a seventh-grader at Dzantik i Heeni Middle School in Juneau.
The Ketchikan School District was represented by Thierry Oyedeji, a Houghtaling Elementary fourth-grader; Sarah Reynolds, a Fawn Mountain Elementary fifth-grader; Bella Wills, a Tongass School of Arts and Sciences fifth-grader; Alijhan Millendez, a Ketchikan Charter School fifth-grader; and Riley Saxton, a Point Higgins Elementary sixth-grader.
Those students all won their classroom-level and school-level spelling bees earlier this year, and then competed against each other in the district-wide bee in early March.
The Ketchikan Gate way Borough Assembly likely will be able to avoid overdrawing from its Local Education Fund in the upcoming fiscal year under the Ketchikan School District s draft operating budget, the borough finance director said on Monday.
The Assembly-Ketchikan School Board Liaison Committee met on Monday in the Assembly chambers to discuss solutions to the ongoing deficit in the LEF.
District Business Manager Katie Parrott told members of the committee, which includes members of the School Board and the Assembly, about the changes she conveyed to the board s Finance Committee on Friday. We adjusted down the discretionary contribution ask (from the borough) by the exact amount that the required local contribution went up, Parrott explained on Friday. So, essentially what we did, is, we re asking for the exact same amount as last year â so, we didn t increase our ask.
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